Patient-Reported Social Risks and Clinician Decision Making: Results of a Clinician Survey in Primary Care Community Health Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the extent that patients' social determinants of health (SDOH) influence safety-net primary care clinicians' decisions at the point of care; examine how that information comes to the clinician's attention; and analyze clinician, patient, and encounter characteristics associated with the use of SDOH data in clinical decision making.

Methods

Thirty-eight clinicians working in 21 clinics were prompted to complete 2 short card surveys embedded in the electronic health record (EHR) daily for 3 weeks. Survey data were matched with clinician-, encounter-, and patient-level variables from the EHR. Descriptive statistics and generalized estimating equation models were used to assess relationships between the variables and the clinician reported use of SDOH data to i

SUBMITTER: Bunce A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042556 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature